Showers of blessings!

Please forgive me for my absence lately!  We are expecting baby #4 (which is actually #5 after our miscarriage in March), and I have been feeling the exhaustion and emotions.  But the second trimester is just around the corner, so hopefully I will be back on here more often!  I must keep my priorities first, which is my family and home (a huge responsibility in and of itself), so please bear with me.  Thank you!

I titled this "Showers of Blessings" because I wanted to share with you some of the wonderful blessings the Lord has so graciously given us here recently.  We have so much to thank Him for!  For one, a baby on the way is a huge blessing!  We love our children and are grateful for each one.  Also, our house in Ohio is about to be sold, which will be a huge burden lifted.  This summer (I love summer!) the Lord blessed us with a blackberry bush, in which I was able to get enough berries to make a pie, freezer jam, a cobbler, and two freezer bags full to save for later!  I can't fail to mention the fact that the Lord, in His providence, blessed our church with a new visiting family!  A wonderful encouragement to us all!  It is great to see Him at work!  Also, I am very appreciative of being able to homeschool our children.  Our oldest is five and it has been amazing to watch her learn to read and write.  She is really starting to take off and I am greatly encouraged and blessed by it!

This is just to name a few things, but God has been faithful in many.  "O give thanks unto the LORD for He is good!"  Psalm 118:1